Jasper Johns Quotes - Page 3

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• To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Drawing, Painting

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• Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

  Jasper Johns

  Artist, Favorite Artist, Fields

  "Cunningham and Johns: Rare Glimpses Into a Collaboration". www.nytimes.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

  Jasper Johns

  Drawing, Love Drawings, Enjoyed

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• I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

  Jasper Johns

  Trying, Way

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• I never wish for critics.

  Jasper Johns

  Wish, Critics

  "Master of few words". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

  Jasper Johns

  Fall, Kind, Clue

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoet, 1996.

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• Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

  Jasper Johns

  Artist, Intellectual, Important

  "Daily Close-up, after the Flag". Roberta Brandes Gratz, New York Post, December 30, 1970.

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• Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Expression, Negative

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoet, 1996.

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• Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

  Jasper Johns

  Boards, Balls, Use

  Francis M. Naumann, Jasper Johns, Gagosian Gallery (1992). “Jasper Johns: according to what & watchman”

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• Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.

  Jasper Johns

  Children, Believe, Ideas

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• There was very little art in my childhood.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Childhood, Littles

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Ideas, Space

  "Master of few words". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Sound, Cages

  "John Adds Plaster Casts To Focus Target Paintings". Donald Key, Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1960.

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• Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

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  Color, Names, Leaving

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.

  Jasper Johns

  People, Wells

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

  Jasper Johns

  Mean, Grace, Energy

  "Master of few words". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2004.

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• Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).

  Jasper Johns

  Garden, Rocks, Space

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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